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If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.